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Technology Upgrade

So, POB (partner of blogger) and I have been dancing around the DVR issue. (To get a DVR or not to get a DVR? That is the question.)

Why so resistant? We didn’t want TLP (our son, the little prince) to become too attached to TV shows, etc. We want him not to grow into a v-idiot who schedules social interactions around an episode of, let’s say, Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

In short, we lost. “It is only one TV show,” we say to each other as we slide head first down the slippery slope. And it will make Friday nights around the dinner table with friends and godchildren less stressful if TLP doesn’t have to watch the clock until, as he says, he “must withdraw from society” and watch his program. (Yes, my son speaks with a dramatic flair that is best left to an adaptation on Masterpiece Theatre. Nevertheless, his turns of phrase are diverting, if head-scratching.)

I learned that a DVR is not a separate device, but an enhanced computer chip in a cable box. Who knew? (Two entire generations knew.) Our friendly helpdesk person explained that to me and more. “Sa-ay-yyyy you’ah watching O-O-prah, and you didn’t catch what they said, you can rewind a live broid-cast!! It’s ama-ayyy-zing. Not that I watch my programs live, because I am working the night shift here now since I lost my old job 15 months ago, but I’m just say-yin’ it’s possible.”

We chatted some, and I wished her well. “It was a real pleasuhre talkin’ to you, [POB].”

Did you think I would give my own name? Besides, the bill comes to POB.